2nd & 3rd Periods

Current Unit

Unit 4: The Art of Disguise

Essential Question: How do we perform for different audiences?

Genre Focus: Drama

Unit Assessment: Research Paper

StudySync Unit 4:

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

• Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience

• Romiette and Julio

• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliette (Act II, Scene II)

• The Pose

• Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird

StudySync Unit 4 Skills:

• Content Vocabulary

• Academic Vocabulary

• Word Patterns and Relationships

• Summarizing

• Informational Text Elements

• Textual Evidence

• Author’s Purpose and Point of View

• Primary and Secondary Sources

• Dramatic Elements and Structure

• Allusion

• Media

• Close Read

• Language, Style, and Audience

• Connotation and Denotation

• Beyond the Book Tasks

• Achieve3000

• CommonLit: Reading and Writing Tasks

• Frayer Vocabulary Slides

Past Units

Unit 3: Declaring Your Genius

Essential Question: How do you define intelligence?

Genre Focus: Argumentative Text

Unit Assessment: Argument Writing

StudySync Unit 3:

• Georgia O’Keeffe 

• The Most Dangerous Game 

• Outliers: The Story of Success

• The Origin of Intelligence

• The Secret to Raising Smart Kids 

StudySync Unit 3 Skills:

• Content Vocabulary

• Academic Vocabulary

• Context Clues

• Author’s Purpose and Point of View

• Story Structure

• Character

• Close Read

• Summarizing

• Arguments and Claims

• Logical Fallacies

• Beyond the Book Tasks

• Achieve3000

• CommonLit: Reading and Writing Tasks

• Frayer Vocabulary Slides

Unit 2: The Call to Adventure

Essential Question: What will you learn on your journey? 

Genre Focus: Informational Text

Unit Assessment: StudySync Unit 2 Assessment

StudySync Unit 2:

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

• 12 (from ‘Gitanjali’)

• The Journey

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail 

• The Art of Choosing

• Restless Genes

StudySync Unit 2 Skills:

• Content Vocabulary

• Academic Vocabulary

• Poetic Elements and Structure

• Point of View

• Author’s Purpose and Point of View

• Informational Text Structure

• Central or Main Idea

• Close Read

• Informational Text Structure

• Word Meaning

• Connotation and Denotation

• Achieve3000

• Frayer Vocabulary Slides

Unit 1: Divided We Fall

Essential Question: Why do we feel the need to belong?

Genre Focus: Fiction

Unit Assessment: StudySync Unit 2 Simplified Assessment

StudySync Unit 1:

• Marigolds

• The Necklace

• Metamorphoses

• Braving the Wilderness

• St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

• Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question

• Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

• Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate 

• Welcome to America

• I Have a Dream

• The Future in My Arms 

StudySync Unit 1 Skills:

• Annotation

• Context Clues

• Reading Comprehension

• Text Dependent Responses

• Textual Evidence

• Character

• Collaborative Conversations

• Short Constructed Responses

• Peer Review

• Content Vocabulary

• Recognizing Genre: Fiction

• Academic Vocabulary

• Theme

• Compare and Contrast

• Allusion

• Language, Style, and Audience

• Primary and Secondary Sources

• Arguments and Claims

• Rhetoric

• Timed Writing

• Achieve3000

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